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Erika
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I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.
“Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.”
― For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
― For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
“Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Seven Gothic Tales
― Seven Gothic Tales
“Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“In the beautiful words of Lore Wilbert Ferguson: Tell me, I want to say to my fellow writers, tell me of your inner demons, tell me of your flesh. I want to hear the war that waged within you as you navigated complex stories and spaces. I want to know how hard you fought and how much you wept and how little you prayed. Tell it honest, tell it slant, tell it however you want to, but tell the truth because the truth is ten thousand little protests that got you where you are and every one of them matters to God and to me and even to you because there you are and there you were all along.5”
― Let There Be Art: The Pleasure and Purpose of Unleashing the Creativity within You
― Let There Be Art: The Pleasure and Purpose of Unleashing the Creativity within You
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